On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 17:39 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I've booted F16.
> My old-grub stanza:
> title chainload to sda
> kernel (hd1,1)/grub2/core.img
>
> As I didn't expect it to work, I only installed the minimal version.
>
> There are a few things that concern me.
> When I tried to login as hennebry,
> my password showed on the console.
Probably a plymouth issue.
I'd found these before your response:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_%28software%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Plymouth_(software)
Someone really doesn't like plymouth.
> Also, which of the following should concern me:
> [root@localhost root]# grep -v Installing install.log
> warning: setup-2.8.36-2.fc16.noarch: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID a82ba4b7:
NOKEY
> Need 'inst' function, try setting PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS to a
file that defines it
> SELinux: Could not downgrade policy file /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.26,
searching for an older version.
> SELinux: Could not open policy file <= /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.26:
No such file or directory
> load_policy: Can't load policy: No such file or directory
> grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
> grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config.
> *** FINISHED INSTALLING PACKAGES ***
> [root@localhost root]#
I wouldn't be hugely worried about any of them. Try doing a full install
and I suspect a lot of the above 'weirdness' would go away.
Will do.
Thanks.
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily